Example sentences of "he [verb] [adv prt] [to-vb] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | DAMIEN HOPLEY had just finished celebrating his Twickenham triumph with Cambridge on Tuesday when a phone call from London coach Tony Jorden sent him dashing off to get in another round . |
| 2 | And he goes on to reveal in the letter that he had just taken a day off ‘ work ’ to watch a Tennessee high school football game with Ginger Alden , the 20-year-old Tennessee beauty queen who bore a startling resemblance to his mother and whom he called ‘ little Gladys ’ . |
| 3 | Their father sometimes baths them , often puts them to bed , irons , sews on his buttons and makes cakes , but as far as the kids are concerned , the main thing about Daddy is that he goes off to work in that magical place known as The Office . |
| 4 | I just hoped that Tom would feel better about the situation when he came back to work in the New Year . |
| 5 | A few days after that Norman Prince , the founder of the Lafayette , flying long and late in an attempt to avenge Rockwell , hit a high-tension cable as he came in to land in the dark . |
| 6 | King Hassan , the Maghreb 's sole reigning monarch , had issued a swift and strong condemnation of Iraq 's invasion of Kuwait and he went on to vote in favour of the resolution adopted at the Cairo summit . |
| 7 | He went on to work in a hospital ship in the Mediterranean — a year which he later described as being one of the most enjoyable of his life . |
| 8 | He went on to work in thermodynamics , and like Wheatstone to put his electrical knowledge to practical use in devices connected with telegraphy . |
| 9 | He went on to play in all 42 League games that season and helped the club to finish in a respectable third position but , statistically at least , his best season with the Palace was 1920–21 when , along with all the other Southern League clubs , we were admitted to the Football League — and promptly won the newly-formed 3rd Division at the first time of asking ! |
| 10 | He was a dragon , but he went off to fight in Russia , poor boy . |
| 11 | ‘ Certainly , sir , ’ Theda replied , and turned as he went off to find in Mrs Alderley 's face a look of blank astonishment . |
| 12 | The mother shouted at one of the boys and he went back to sit in the small lorry . |
| 13 | To read Mrs McDermott 's vivid recollection of those final precious moments when she spoke to her son and tidied his hair before he ran off to play in Ormeau Park where he met his killer would melt the hardest of hearts . |
| 14 | The Crown Prince had achieved what he set out to do in March ; though his small auxiliary clearing action had taken him nearly three months and cost at least as many lives as the whole of the rest of the fighting to date . |
| 15 | He stood back to watch in admiration , hands on tattered knees . |